U+F929 "朗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F929 "朗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to encode forms used in legacy East Asian character sets for round-trip compatibility, rather than representing a distinct or standard modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character. Specifically, this code point corresponds to a variant of the common kanji/hanzi "朗" (meaning bright, clear, or cheerful), which is already encoded in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block. The compatibility version was included to preserve the exact glyph shape and encoding from older standards like IBM or CNS, ensuring that documents created with those systems could be converted to Unicode without losing the original appearance. As a result, U+F929 is generally considered a duplicate or presentation form of the unified character, and its use is discouraged in favor of the canonical U+6717 "朗".

General Properties

Code Point U+F929
Version Added 1.1
Name CJK Compatibility Ideograph-#
Block CJK Compatibility Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "朗" U+6717 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 朗
HTML Hex Encoding 朗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA4 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF929
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F929
C/C++/Java Escape \uf929

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "朗" U+6717 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "朗" U+6717 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant U+6717
kDefinition clear, bright; distinct
kHangul 낭:0
kIBMJapan FAE0
kIRG_JSource J3-754E
kIRG_KSource K0-5228
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+6717
kJIS0213 1,85,46
kKorean NANG
kNelson 3769
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+20305+74.4.7
kRSUnicode 74.7
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 J